Keynote Speakers

Lisa Gibbs, Director of News Partnerships at The Associated Press, AP’s Automation and Artificial Intelligence Strategy Group

Lisa Gibbs is Director of News Partnerships at The Associated Press and the newsroom’s point person on AP’s Automation and Artificial Intelligence Strategy Group. She oversaw AP’s first significant text automation initiative from 2014, which uses automation software to generate roughly 3700 corporate earnings stories every quarter. Current projects span a range of technologies, including image recognition, machine learning for verification of social media and event detection.

Hinrich Schütze, Professor of Computational Linguistics and Director of the Center for Information and Language Processing at LMU Munich

Hinrich Schütze is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Director of the Center for Information and Language Processing at LMU Munich in Germany. Before moving to Munich in 2013, he taught at the University of Stuttgart. He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from Stanford University in 1995 and worked on natural language processing and information retrieval technology at Xerox PARC, at several Silicon Valley startups and at Google 1995-2004 and 2008/9. He is a coauthor of Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (with Chris Manning) and Introduction to Information Retrieval (with Chris Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan).

Mona Diab, Full Professor of Computational Linguistics and NLP in the Department of Computer Science at George Washington University.

Mona Diab is Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI Deep Learning in Seattle, WA, USA. She is also Professor of Computational Linguistics and NLP in the Department of Computer Science, George Washington University (GW), and founder and Director of the NLP lab CARE4Lang at George Washington University. Her research interests include cross linguistic modelling and multilingual processing, computational lexical semantics, social media processing, information extraction & text analytics, machine translation, resource building, and computational socio-pragmatics. Mona has more than 200 scientific publications and she serves as acting editor for several of the community’s top scientific journals such as TACL and CSL.

SwissText was held on the 18th and 19th of June 2019 in the ZHAW Eulachpassage in Winterthur (same location as last year).
The venue is located in the historic heart of the city, a 5 minutes’ walk from Winterthur main railway station and has a directly attached parking deck.

Address: Building TN at ZHAW Campus Winterthur, Technikumstrasse 71

Directions: Google Maps

Conference Chair: Mark Cieliebak

Organizing Committee: Fernando Benites, Jan Deriu, Don Tuggener, Ada Wan, Andrea Aguilar Ibáñez, Pamela Hunziker, Cornelia Wichser, Manuela Hürlimann, Pius von Dänicken, Annette Zani, Amrita Prasad

The conference was organized by Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and co-organized by the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services. It was supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) and industrial sponsors.

The detailed list can be found here.

Lorenz Huber was the official videographer during the SwissText Conference.

Cloudia Chen was the official photographer during the SwissText Conference.

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